Word: hidebound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their assigned seats on the Ruhr Authority set up by the Western powers last April, and thereby formally accept international control of the Ruhr's industrial output; 2) make some public statement indicating acceptance of continuing military security inspection by the Western powers; 3) cooperate in reforming the hidebound German civil service and decartelizing German industry...
...Center (founded in 1938 but dormant through war and occupation) now has about 3,000 members. They represent a small and dissident fraction of the hidebound Conseil National du Patronat Français (France's N.A.M.), which has 880,140 members and remains suspicious of the Young Employers' radical views. But the Young Employers are tireless evangelists. Originally their group was limited to employers under 40; now there is no age qualification, but members are expected to be "young in spirit...
...difference between Osaka and Nagoya goes straight to the heart of the Japanese character. The Japanese are a people with a split personality, and Osaka and Nagoya are extreme examples of their duality. The Japan of Osaka is progressive, militant, competent, rude. The Japan of Nagoya is hidebound, passive, polite and wary of outside influences...
...taking back a word. "Can you imagine in these days such fanatical, Torquemada-like intolerance?" he asked. Last week he announced that he would open forums at which university students would be free to debate philosophy and politics. That, he said, would represent one step farther away from the hidebound teaching methods of the universities of Mother Spain...
Japan's Kabuki or People's Theater is nowhere near as stuffy as the ancient and stylized No drama, but in 300 years, even the Kabuki has become a bit hidebound. Back in 1931, Japan's top Kabuki player, jut-jawed Actor Chojuro Kawarasaki, decided to liberate...